A 24-year-old man has been arrested and charged with criminal sexual conduct in the first degree in an assault on a 2-year-old.

Brian Pluskhat of Ionia was arrested Aug. 29 and arraigned in Ionia County 64-A District Court Aug. 30.

According to Detective Sgt. Cory McDiarmid of the Ionia Department of Public Safety, the child was taken to Sparrow Ionia Hospital and subsequently transferred to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing. Child Protective Services and IDPS were notified, and an investigation of child abuse and criminal sexual conduct on the toddler was begun, McDiarmid said. Pluskhat was taken into custody during the investigation.